Episode 333: Chop wood, carry water

This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash. Rundown State of devrel 2021 The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues Relevant to your interests AWS Primitives An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider @Werner vs @QuinnyPig Unleash the Booch on No Code A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees. Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors How H-E-B got into livestreaming The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365 Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5 Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests AWS Top Secret-West Social Media Trends 2022 $50M to reinvent security automation Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows Launched Managed Kubernetes service An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM) Kelsey wades into Bitcoin AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises New Horizons for Open Source VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh [A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future](http://) [Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source](http://) Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent? An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge Nonsense icanhazdadjoke Estonian capital began with a traffic jam Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: postlight.com/podcast Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, Event Date: May 10 & 11th, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, Event Dates: April 18 & 19th, 2022 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Brother Compact Monochrome Laser Printer Matt: Lens Desktop for Kubernetes Coté: Basel gingerbread. Photo Credits Header Graphic Cover Art